English to Russian Art/Literary History религиозные образы в живописи средневековья

Yet it was allowed subjective use permitting individual associations to be projected into the image; for example, it could present the divine figure as a partner upon whom one could convey sorrow in the form of compassion and exchange solace (передать скорбь в форме сострадания и обмена утешением). The intersubjective relation between Jesus and the contemplating believer presupposes what has been called devotion (devotio) (обет, благоговение, набожность, верность Христу), that is, the religious dialogue that an individual or community conducts with a partner imagined in a particular way. When it was supported by an image that made the partner in the image present as a living participant in the dialogue, one can describe this as image devotion.